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I think they also plan to make this modular MP a proper Xserve replacement of sorts as well. Some people still want Mac servers and Mac Minis aren't always up to the task in terms of storage and throughput. iMacs are capable but its a waste having a quality 27" display attached to a server no one sits at.

My hope was always that - make something that CAN fit in a 19" rack if it has to, even if that is not the main usecase.

The new Mac Pro has up to 30 MB of cache inside the processor itself. That's more than the HD in my first Mac. Somehow I'm still running out of space.

Location: Well the sports issue was within arm's reach but they closed up shop and kicked me out. And I'm out of toilet paper.

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Also, for the first time, it was during WWDC, they say "Kaby Lake" more similar to "Baby Lake" than "Kah-bee lake" Why would they pronounce it like "Baby Lake"? Eeeww! That's a personal annoyance and I had never heard anyone pronounce it that way before. People, call it Kaby Lake (as one would start to say "Cabbage").

I'm looking through reqs for the last month and most people at the office in the upgrade cycle are asking for 12.9" iPad Pros, in lieu of laptops, and I'm noticing the prices. $1200-1400 for a tablet? WTF? Sure, that's not too bad compared to a new Surface Book, which was one of their other options, but that's still a little nuts, IMO.

"I have a dream, that my four little children will one day live in a
nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character." - M.L.King Jr

I'm looking through reqs for the last month and most people at the office in the upgrade cycle are asking for 12.9" iPad Pros, in lieu of laptops, and I'm noticing the prices. $1200-1400 for a tablet? WTF? Sure, that's not too bad compared to a new Surface Book, which was one of their other options, but that's still a little nuts, IMO.

People I know with the 10.5in model are absolutely smitten like with no other iPad.

This space for Hire! Reasonable rates. Reach an audience of literally dozens!

I played with a 10.5" iPad Pro in Osaka's Apple Store last week, and the difference between 60 Hz and 120 Hz is tremendous. And as an avid Pencil user, cutting the lag in half from ~40 ms to ~20 ms is immediately noticeable. Almost a pity that I bought a 9.7" Pro last year — almost.

I played with a 10.5" iPad Pro in Osaka's Apple Store last week, and the difference between 60 Hz and 120 Hz is tremendous. And as an avid Pencil user, cutting the lag in half from ~40 ms to ~20 ms is immediately noticeable. Almost a pity that I bought a 9.7" Pro last year — almost.

Well, frick...

I'm in the same boat, and I'm trying to do everything I can to not talk myself into selling the 9.7" for the 10.5". I use the Apple Pencil over an hour per day, easily — meeting notes, drawing, browsing...all day. That extra 0.8" is nearly as much of a selling point for me.

Ideally, you should have the speakers placed so their tweeters are as close as possible to the same height as your ears when you're listening.

That means: Have the tweeters up as high as possible, not at the bottom.
(Edit: What I meant was: This implies getting the tweeters as high up from the floor as possible.)

Besides, any audiophile knows that putting the speakers very close to the floor (or desk or whatever hard surface) sacrifices sound quality and can actually make it hurt to listen to the music (something like a phase stethoscope effect), because the sound will seem to come from both the speaker and a reflection off the surface (which also affects the purity of the sound).

The subwoofer can go wherever since it's supposed to be long-wavelength, low-frequency sound anyway (antinodes as close as 2.5 feet apart at 200 Hz) and feels like deep base.

No, that doesn’t mean "have the tweeters as high up as possible", it means "have the tweeters at ear level".

That’s a pretty fundamental difference.

Also, no serious hi-fi enthusiast is going to be buying these things for sitting down in an ideal listening triangle for serious listening. Like Sonos and other similar wireless multi-room systems, these are aimed at discerning-but-casual listeners.

My car stereo doesn’t hold a candle to my Linn System in the living room. But it's good enough to be fun and not annoy me; likewise with the kitchen system (though that one is going to be replaced at some point).

HomePod looks like a perfect system for the bedroom, where its purpose would be to fill the room with decent sound, not to provide a hi-fi listening experience.

I’ll reserve final judgement until after I’ve heard one, though. I’m curious how well the room acoustics compensation will work.

A reasonable goal for Apple here is to do the same the iPhone did to the camera market: make the sound quality sound good as to eat into the compact stereo market. The iPhone does not compete with dslrs and mirrorless cameras, but they have squeezed compact cameras out of the market.

I hope Apple didn’t make the HomePod small just for the sake of it being small like the Mac pro trashcan model. If that Mac was a bit larger, it would be cheaper to make, use less custom parts, and maybe fit a full graphics card inside, and be easier to cool.

Apple sure doesn't seem very excited about the Homepod and also isn't doing a good job of getting us excited either.

This is the lowest key launch I can remember for an entire new product line at Apple.

Personally, I don't understand the appeal of these tubes you talk to. I know the tech press seems to be all excited for them, but have they really penetrated the market? Do people really care? I know a few people who have them, but the vast majority of people I know could give two craps. Me included.

Personally, I don't understand the appeal of these tubes you talk to. I know the tech press seems to be all excited for them, but have they really penetrated the market? Do people really care? I know a few people who have them, but the vast majority of people I know could give two craps. Me included.

Agreed - what are they for? When we get old and mutter around, are they so someone something, anything will answer back? Why pay money for this when you can leave a TV running?

Maybe these things are more popular on the coasts, but whenever I hear people talking about how popular Amazon Alexas are, I really have to wonder what they are talking about. I hang with a bunch of tech-savvy gadget geeks (shocker I know) and literally none of them own one. As far as I know, none of the middle/upper middle class parents I know have one either.

Like, almost no one I know in real life owns these things or ever talks about them. Who are they popular with?